Robert Royal
On a Darkling Plain – The Catholic Thing
I’ve been in Lisbon and, the past few days, Rome presenting translations of my recent book The Martyrs of the New Millennium. It’s encouraging that Christians in Europe are starting to realize the virulence and extent of anti-Christian acts…
What’s Driving the Easter Convert Surge?
This Holy Week edition of The Prayerful Posse dives into the global surge in Catholic converts—and why so many young people are returning to the Church. Raymond Arroyo, Father Gerald Murray, and Robert Royal explore the cultural forces behind…
Scott Hahn and His Happy Band of Convert Brothers
The feast day of the newest Doctor of the Church, John Henry Newman, is not his dies natalis (death) but 9th October, the day of his conversion in 1845. That date was definitive for the shape of the Catholic Church in England. So much good for…
Pope Leo & Pachamama and The Latin Mass “Inclusion”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIHm-pOb7zk The Prayerful Posse dives into major developments in the Church, starting with newly surfaced photos of Pope Leo XIV and questions about Pachamama—was it inculturation or a serious misstep? Father…
Double-Lives in the ‘Naked Public Square’
I take the subway to work. I like doing that because it gives me uninterrupted time to do things. Read. I get at least two books done per month. Write. Some of those book reviews get sketched out on the Orange Line. Pray. The trip to work can…
Thoughts about War in a Lenten Season
Let’s begin with a pointed question: Are we, almost all, today, Sadducees? If your knowledge of the groups who appear in the New Testament is hazy, we might put it thus: Do almost all of us now, even Christians who claim otherwise, like the…
Athletes Acknowledging God – The Catholic Thing
The New York Times reported the words, but the Wall Street Journal didn’t. When Bam Adebayo, two days ago, was asked to describe the moment when he scored 83 points in an NBA game, second only to Wilt Chamberlain’s 100 points, he said, “Man, I…
The Body of This Death Comes for the Archbishop
I wouldn’t describe myself as a “fan” of science fiction. I shrug my shoulders at Star Wars and Star Trek, and became so frustrated with Frank Herbert’s Dune that I barely finished it. Nevertheless, I confess a certain guilty fascination with…
War, Just and Unjust – The Catholic Thing
Nuclear weapons, like other modern technological developments, have placed great strains on traditional moral principles. Just as modern medicine has changed our appreciation of the beginning and end of human life, the tremendous destructive…
Two for Catholic Schools Week
Steven Jonathan Rummelsburg If you send your children to a Catholic school, you should ask the principal or a teacher if they can answer two questions: “What is a human person?” and “What is the purpose of an education?” You’ll likely hear about…